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I’m Afraid my Students are Going to Get Bored with my Yoga Sequences

June 30, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant This came up in conversation this week - a new teacher expressing a fear that her yoga sequences weren't interesting enough and that she was going to be boring her students. She wanted to know how to make her sequences more interesting. However, there is a fallacy of logic here. The teacher has a fear arising - that of boring her students. Her approach to working with that fear is to ensure that the external circumstance triggering the fear is removed - bored … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: fear, samskara, sequencing, shiva rea, teaching yoga, yoga mentor

Grief: The Shadow Side of the Heart Chakra

October 9, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

Love asks us to open to grief

by Kara-Leah Grant It's all good and well to do these wonderful heart-opening or heart-balancing yoga practices, but without a proper understanding of all aspects of the heart chakra, we can easily hit a wall of resistance that stops our practice cold. The heart chakra is about our ability to love - which requires that we open to the possibility of grief, sorrow and disappointment as well as the wonderful sensations of love, joy, fulfilment and compassion. Working with this kriya meant I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Home Yoga Practice, Practices Tagged With: anahata chakra, grief, Heart CHakra, kryia, kundalini yoga, relationships, samskara, The Heart

What does ‘Yoga is a path to self-realisation’ mean?

March 27, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant It's the eve of my book launch and I'm watching a talk on TED called The Gift of Asking. Earlier, I took time to sit on the front deck of my Aunt's house, high on a hill over looking Thames and watched the sun set. The views were panoramic, the insect life vibrant and lyrical, and as I sat I felt profoundly connected. I felt, in my bones, a sense of achievement and accomplishment as I realised I'd done it; I'd come back from insanity - all the way back. For the first time, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, path, samskara, seal-realization, self-realisation, success

Confessions of an ex-relationship manipulator and control freak

May 4, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 19 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Ok, the headline is harsh. I admit it. But also true. See, over the last while, I've been working with a relationship pattern (a samskara) of giving away my power by not speaking my truth because I was afraid of the consequences. It's an insidious pattern because it has all kinds of detrimental effects on one's self-esteem, and the relationships one is in. Plus it creates suffering as the desire to hold on to something while betraying oneself can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: behaviour, co-dependent, control, dependency, freak, manipulation, manipulator, patterns, Relationship, relationships, samskara, satya, thought, truth

What is a Kundalini Awakening and Have I Had One?

April 27, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant

Kundalini Shakti

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah's new book 'Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening', publishing in 2018. Guaranteed to take you on an intimate journey into the depths of the Kundalini experience. Click here to sign up for the book launch list and go into the draw to win one of THREE print copies. By Kara-Leah Grant The following information is not gospel - it's just my reflections and my understandings based on my own experience of Kundalini Awakening. As always, don't believe a thing I say unless it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, psyche, psychosis, samskara, shakti

Day 1 to 7: Forty Day Sadhana of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

January 9, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

It's one week into my forty day Sadhana and I am loving it. No matter what is going on in my day, no matter how I am feeling, I know I can take eleven minutes out to myself to do this practice of sodarshan chakra kriya, and afterward I always feel better. One of the most noticeable benefits has been clarity in the mind. I've been dealing with a lot of mind chatter in the past week, and the difference after my eleven minute practice is like the difference between the height of a downpour … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: kriya, kundalini, samskara, sodarshan chakra kriya

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